Re: running openttd on linux

J7N <[email protected]> Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:08:34 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.games.ttdpatch.general
Organization State Puppet Theatre
Message-ID <op.t67g8k0ixk8zw7@gigabyte>
Being specially programmed for OPL-2 the music indeed sounded very good. =
I especially liked "Cruise Control". I was even not really sure if I pref=
ered OPL or Yamaha XG rendition at one point. There are still recordings =
of the OPL-3 'performance' (64 kBit/s) somewhere in my collection, if any=
body is interested.

Windows 2000 probably emulated all MIDI playback using "Microsoft Synthes=
izer". Some WDM sound drivers do that also in Win98.

Music in TT is not interactive. You could play it using a dedicated audio=
 player when you want.

> Yeah... I started playing TTD in 1996 on a 486x66 and I had a
> Soundblaster card too! It sounded really good. I don't know if you
> ever experienced the same thing, but I remember feeling like the sound
> was different when I started playing in Windows 2000.

--=20
J7N, [email protected]

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